The Grand Father paradox is flawed.

The time travel cliché of the “Grand Father” paradox is logically flawed and has driven the notion of the multiverse theory. In fact matter as information can be proven to be persistent through time travel and indifferent to events that created it. The fact that a woman and man spawn a child is a form of instancing an object, albeit to the degree of abstraction of a human being is more of instancing a configuration of matter, none the less the information stands on its own within the universe. If such a child where to travel to the past and kill his grand father preventing his birth it would not destroy the information that structures the child. You could find this analogous to a virus that persists in a computer memory. If the computer memory is never purged and the operating system is replaced and all executables that created the virus destroyed but the virus itself is in the memory and never touched then when the operating system is started again the virus still persists. In a similar fashion the child is never destroyed by the child going back in time and killing his grand father. What does happen is the child is preserved in the changed time line even though it is never born.

As time does not flow then all the events in Closed time-like loop must be consistent from the very beginning. In another words, when you try to kill you father, you suddendly change your mind, or it does not work, or forget the gun, get arrested before you kill him etc.

As time does not flow then all the events in Closed time-like loop must be consistent from the very beginning. In another words, when you try to kill you father, you suddendly change your mind, or it does not work, or forget the gun, get arrested before you kill him etc.

The notion that the time-line exerts a force to preserve past events is a supersitious belief. If the oportunity for an event exists and can happen by physical processes then nothing can stop it from happening. So if the child is stead fast in testing this paradox he or she can kill the grand father. Because the information or mattter in the form of the child is not physically destroyed it will be preserved in the new time line, whether that be returning to the future or remaining in the past.

The real problem of time travel is the increase in the universe's mass when you travel back in time. Think about it, if you go back in time the stuff you're made of exists in some other form in a body of water, mineral, plant or animal. So when you go back in time effectively there is more mass in the universe!

So the increase in gravitational influence described by astronomers in the galaxy isn't from dark matter but from all the time travelers from other planets in the universe.

The real problem of time travel is the increase in the universe's mass when you travel back in time. Think about it, if you go back in time the stuff you're made of exists in some other form in a body of water, mineral, plant or animal. So when you go back in time effectively there is more mass in the universe!

So the increase in gravitational influence described by astronomers in the galaxy isn't from dark matter but from all the time travelers from other planets in the universe.

Lets talk not about the hypotetical 'time machine' which does not exist
but about the Closed Timelike loops - they exist, at least inside the rotating black holes

The notion that the time-line exerts a force to preserve past events is a supersitious belief. If the oportunity for an event exists and can happen by physical processes then nothing can stop it from happening. So if the child is stead fast in testing this paradox he or she can kill the grand father. Because the information or mattter in the form of the child is not physically destroyed it will be preserved in the new time line, whether that be returning to the future or remaining in the past.

Frank

The key point of block time is that there is only one time line.
In order to talk about 'other timelines' you need to literally rework the whole physics.

The time travel cliché of the “Grand Father” paradox is logically flawed and has driven the notion of the multiverse theory. In fact matter as information can be proven to be persistent through time travel and indifferent to events that created it.

You should acknowledge that, as there is spatial structure of object, there is also time structure as well. Your arguments are that there is no past, and that it does not matter what happened in past, present remains as it is. That is ok, but then there is no past to travel to.

The time travel cliché of the “Grand Father” paradox is logically flawed and has driven the notion of the multiverse theory. In fact matter as information can be proven to be persistent through time travel and indifferent to events that created it. The fact that a woman and man spawn a child is a form of instancing an object, albeit to the degree of abstraction of a human being is more of instancing a configuration of matter, none the less the information stands on its own within the universe. If such a child where to travel to the past and kill his grand father preventing his birth it would not destroy the information that structures the child. You could find this analogous to a virus that persists in a computer memory. If the computer memory is never purged and the operating system is replaced and all executables that created the virus destroyed but the virus itself is in the memory and never touched then when the operating system is started again the virus still persists. In a similar fashion the child is never destroyed by the child going back in time and killing his grand father. What does happen is the child is preserved in the new time line even though it is never born.

So why do experts need a parallel universe to solve this paradox?

You make some serious contradictions in your statement. First of all, this paradox doesn't drive the idea of a multiverse. It simply states that only considering relativity, this thought experiment would violate causality. At the end of your argument you assert that a new timeline is created, which is consistent with a multiverse view (which you seem to be adamantly against). So you literally answered your own question. You need a parallel universe to solve this paradox for the new timeline (preserving the child) to exist.

How about this scenario. It is 2009 and John decides to travel back in time to 1909 and kill his grandfather. Let's say he succeeds does that mean his mother and brother that did not travel back in time magically dissolve when John kills his grandfather and do not exist in the year 2010 in the original timeline? If not, then we have 2 time lines, one in which his mother and brother exist in 2010 and another branching off at 1909 in which John will never meet his mother or brother again. Two timelines requires two parallel universes or we have to include some magic such as his mother and brother mysteriously disappearing in the future without any apparent cause or mystical coincidences conspiring to prevent John killing his grandfather.

On the low level (solution of the wavefunctions of QM particles) it is not mystical. Just extra boundary conditions.

On the macroscopic level yes, it probably looks mysterious. It is interesting - if I really decide to change the past at some point how soon the 'environment' reacts? Should I change my mind month or days before? Or something happens at the very last moment? Would nature try to minimize the 'intervention' - like, moving few milligrams of matter in my brains would be probably enough to cause severe illness or brain damage, instead of spending energy on creation of earthquake?

You make some serious contradictions in your statement. First of all, this paradox doesn't drive the idea of a multiverse. It simply states that only considering relativity, this thought experiment would violate causality. At the end of your argument you assert that a new timeline is created, which is consistent with a multiverse view (which you seem to be adamantly against). So you literally answered your own question. You need a parallel universe to solve this paradox for the new timeline (preserving the child) to exist.

No I do not since I am accerting that the universe is not deterministic. So a new time line in this context means the past was manipulated. I guess I should have stated that the time line is changed, this way you get the point that there is only one time line.

You should acknowledge that, as there is spatial structure of object, there is also time structure as well. Your arguments are that there is no past, and that it does not matter what happened in past, present remains as it is. That is ok, but then there is no past to travel to.

You're right in a scenario where a time machine could reach any time period of the past, there is no past to return to. But in the scenario where the time machine is a wormhole taking advantage of time dialation, according to many theorist, time travel to the point of opening the wormhole is possible, since the past is preserved by time dialation.

No I do not since I am accerting that the universe is not deterministic. So a new time line in this context means the past was manipulated. I guess I should have stated that the time line is changed, this way you get the point that there is only one time line.

Well guess what a indeterministic universe implies. Path space (or parallel universes as some call it). If you only have one timeline, the universe is set, and the future is unchangeable. This is the very definition of deterministic. However, quantum mechanics shows us that reality is fundamentally indeterministic. Why do you have such a deep philosophical objection to multiple universes?

Actually in the idea that killing your grandfather prevents ones birth is really good to a certain degree of probability. After all the conditions by which one is born is subject to many influences and since such influences would probably still be in the changed time line that someone like you could be born since your mother would have tastes for men similar to what was to be your father. In a similar notion the prevention of birth may not stop scientific or social trends from happening. While Newton was on the verge of inventing calculus so too was Gottfried Leibniz who in fact was attributed with the invention of calculus. The universe is so complicated that simply preventing one event does not deterministically prevent other events that followed the event that was prevented. Of course if you destroy enough of the past to be certain of preventing an event, like WWI by destroying the human race, then there is enough certainty.

Well guess what a indeterministic universe implies. Path space (or parallel universes as some call it). If you only have one timeline, the universe is set, and the future is unchangeable. This is the very definition of deterministic. However, quantum mechanics shows us that reality is fundamentally indeterministic. Why do you have such a deep philosophical objection to multiple universes?

No, one time line does not mean that the time line can not be changed, it actually implies that information forming the time line can be changed. In effect redirecting the universe by changing information within the universe does not require multiple time lines or parallel univirses.

You're right in a scenario where a time machine could reach any time period of the past, there is no past to return to. But in the scenario where the time machine is a wormhole taking advantage of time dialation, according to many theorist, time travel to the point of opening the wormhole is possible, since the past is preserved by time dialation.

Or look at it this way: Take any spatial dimension. You can go left, you can go right, but any change that you made will influence whole space-time. There is no reason to suspect that same is not true for the time. If you are, somehow able to move through time any way you want, any change you make must have influence, but in the case of time consequences can be dramatic, completely nonlinear, and probably instant. I strongly suspect that traveling to past is possible for any kind of information from future. Whole thing would end up in complete chaos.